linux-kernel - Re: VM/VFS bug with large amount of memory and file systems?

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Date:	Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:50:17 -0400
From:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@....ac.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	marc.smith@...ail.mcc.edu, Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Subject: Re: VM/VFS bug with large amount of memory and file systems?

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:12:38 -0400
> Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
>> Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:46:47 -0400
>>> Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com> wrote:
>>>> Is the slab defragmentation code in -mm or upstream already
>>>> or can I find it on the mailing list?
>>> Is on lkml and linux-mm: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/31/329
>>> I think the whole approach is reasonable.  It's mainly a matter of going
>>> through it all with a toothcomb 
>> I've spent the last two days combing through the patches.
> 
> Thanks.  So would it be appropriate for Christoph to add the
> thus-far-undefined reviewed-by tag to the next version?

Absolutely.  Some of the code was not obvious at first,
but the more I looked at it the better it looked - that's
always a good sign, since most of the code seems to be
the other way around :)

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